Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. IDEA: The Nature of Literature and of Literary Study, 1939-1971
5. 1. The Search for English Literary Documents 15
6. 2. Mimesis and Allegory 32
7. 3. The Parallelism between Literature and the Arts 44
8. 4. The Modern Myth of the Modern Myth 66
9. 5. Imagination as Value 83
10. 6. The Defense of the Illusion and the Creation of Myth 97
11. 7. Mimesis and Katharsis: an Archetypal Consideration 110
12. 8. Ramus: Rhetoric and the Pre-Newtonian Mind 128
13. 9. Belief and the Suspension of Disbelief 149
14. 10. Patristic Exegesis in the Criticism of Medieval Literature: The Opposition 170
15. 11. The Fate of Pleasure Wordsworth to Dostoevski 189
16. 12. Ghostlier Demarcations 212
17. 13. Sign, Sense, and Roland Barthes 228
18. 14. Whorf, Chomsky and the Student of Literature 242
19. Part II. ACT: English Literature, 1600—1950
20. I. Musica Mundana and Twelfth Night 265
21. 2. On the Value of Hamlet 284
22. 3. Shakespeare's Texts and Modern Productions 311
23. 4. EXCURSUS: The Example of Parody 330
24. 5. Unifying Symbols in the Comedy of Ben Jonson 346
25. 6. The Re-invented Poem: George Herbert's Alternatives 362
26. 7. A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle: The Masque as a Masque 382
27. 8. The Rising Poet, 1645 402
28. 9. Literary Criticism: MarvelPs "Horatian Ode" 423
29. 10. Restoration Comedy and Later 444
30. 11. Imitation as Freedom: 1717-1798 463
31. 12. The Satiric Blake: Apprenticeship at the Hay market? 483
32. 13. Coleridge: The Anxiety of Influence 506
33. 14. The Irrelevant Detail and the Emergence of Form 521
34. 15. Dickens and the Comedy of Humors 537
35. 16. Two Faces of Edward 560
36. 17. Poetic Drama and the Well-made Play 576
37. 18. EXCURSUS: Poetry in the Theatre and Poetry of the Theatre: Cocteau's Infernal Machine 590
38. 19. EXCURSUS: Sartre and the Drama of Ensnarement 602
39. 20. The Urban Apocalypse 616
40. Index 637